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  • Ilya Somin on the Legal Basis for Tariffs

    Ilya Somin on the Legal Basis for Tariffs
    2025/06/27
    The US Court of International Trade ruled last month that President Trump does not have the authority to unilaterally implement this year’s tariffs under emergency powers, throwing the president’s newest trade levies into legal limbo. As the case winds its way through the appeals process, the international trade environment hangs in the balance. In this episode, we talk with Ilya Somin, Professor of Law at George Mason University and co-counsel in the recent tariff case at the US Court of International Trade, about the legal pathways for enacting tariffs, last month’s ruling, and his predictions for trade policy once the dust is settled.
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    26 分
  • Robert Dietz on Why There’s a Housing Shortage

    Robert Dietz on Why There’s a Housing Shortage
    2025/06/13
    Regulations, snarled supply chains, and the scarring effects of the global financial crisis have all contributed to a nationwide housing shortage over the last fifteen years. As housing unaffordability continues to limit prospective homebuyers, homebuilders must now contend with federal policies that will impact housing demand, labor availability, and costs for building materials. In this episode, we talk with Robert Dietz, Chief Economist with the National Association of Home Builders, about why there’s a national housing shortage, how homebuilders view new federal policies, and the best ways to improve residential construction.
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    36 分
  • Joseph Wang on Whether SLR Reform can Strengthen the Treasury Market

    Joseph Wang on Whether SLR Reform can Strengthen the Treasury Market
    2025/05/29
    The Supplementary Leverage Ratio (SLR) was designed to increase banking sector resiliency after the Global Financial Crisis. Some have argued the SLR reduces Treasury market liquidity because the ratio is risk insensitive. Fed officials like Jerome Powell and Michelle Bowman have supported SLR reform, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent believes changes to the SLR could push Treasury yields down 30-70bp. In this episode, we talk with Joseph Wang, Principal at Monetary Macro and former trader on the Fed’s open markets desk, about the motivation behind the SLR, how it limits banks’ balance sheet flexibility, and whether reforms would help improve liquidity in the Treasury market.
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    32 分
  • Benn Steil on Dollarization and a Potential “Mar-a-Lago Accord”

    Benn Steil on Dollarization and a Potential “Mar-a-Lago Accord”
    2025/05/16
    The dollar has been the de facto global currency since World War II, pulling foreign investment into the US and allowing the federal government to borrow cheaply. A strong dollar also makes export-driven domestic industries less competitive, something the Trump administration is trying to offset through tariffs. A rumored “Mar-a-Lago Accord” would attempt to maintain the benefits of cheap borrowing while weakening the dollar. In this episode, we talk with Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, about the history behind the dollarization of global finance, the economic tradeoffs of sustained dollar strength, and how new policies could upend the dollar’s role in the post-war financial system.
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    37 分
  • Jonathan Smoke on How Tariffs are Impacting the US Auto Industry

    Jonathan Smoke on How Tariffs are Impacting the US Auto Industry
    2025/05/02
    The typical automobile manufactured in North America crosses national borders at least six times before it’s ready to be sold. Tariffs are expected to increase US auto prices by thousands of dollars as companies establish new supply chains and onshore manufacturing with higher production costs. In this episode, we talk with Jonathan Smoke, Chief Economist with Cox Automotive, about the complexity of auto manufacturing supply chains, tariffs’ impacts on prices and employment in the auto sector, and the outlook for a less globally integrated auto industry.
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    35 分
  • Guy Berger on the Post-Tariff Labor Market

    Guy Berger on the Post-Tariff Labor Market
    2025/04/18
    The Fed has been able to dismiss the economic risks from deteriorating sentiment by emphasizing the steady unemployment rate and decent job growth over the last seven months. The labor market’s surprising resilience over the last few years will now be tested by tariff-induced production changes, federal workforce layoffs, cuts to federal spending, and tighter immigration enforcement. In this episode, we talk with Guy Berger, Director of Economic Research at the Burning Glass Institute, about the risks from a low-churn labor market, how employers are shifting hiring plans amidst new federal policies, and whether the labor market can smoothly adjust to coming policy shocks.
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    35 分
  • Amit Khandelwal on the Economic Impacts of Tariffs

    Amit Khandelwal on the Economic Impacts of Tariffs
    2025/04/07
    President Trump’s latest tariff announcements have thrown global financial markets into a frenzy and increased the uncertainty for the US economic outlook. In this special edition of Simply Put, we talk with Amit Khandelwal, Professor of Global Affairs and Economics at Yale University, about the arguments for and against tariffs, how the 2018 tariffs affected the economy, and what the impacts could be of this year’s much broader and deeper tariff policies.
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    34 分
  • Emily Brock on the Muni Tax Exemption

    Emily Brock on the Muni Tax Exemption
    2025/04/04
    This year’s budget reconciliation bill has the potential to dramatically alter the fiscal relationship between states and the federal government. Some policymakers have proposed repealing the municipal tax exemption that has been at the heart of state financing for over a century. Others have suggested cutting federal spending by shifting the burden for certain outlays to state and local governments. In this episode, we talk with Emily Brock, Director of the Federal Liaison Center at the Government Finance Officers Association, about the critical role the muni tax exemption plays in local infrastructure investment, how states are adjusting to possible spending cuts from the federal government, and how the municipal bond market is responding amidst the policy uncertainty.
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    35 分